There are perhaps only a few North American-born players in the NHL further from home than Edward (Teddy) Purcell--those from Alaska, and Jordin Tootoo. According to MapQuest, St. John’s, Newfoundland, is 4502 miles from Los Angeles. You could drive it, but it would take you 75 hours. But it’s more than distance that separates the 22 year-old Purcell from his home. He is so removed from his roots playing in LA that you could make some almost-funny jokes about the distance.
This place is so far from LA that it wasn’t even in Canada until 1949. It’s so far from LA that the time difference is 4.5 hours. That’s right. As anyone from Canada will tell you, Newfoundland (pronounced either by stressing the first syllable or the second) is not just in the East, say on New York time. It’s not even just on “Atlantic” time, an oddity which separates the people who live on Canada’s east coast by four hours from those in California. No, where Purcell comes from is an extra half-hour removed even from that, so that TV shows on Canadian networks always announce themselves like this: “That’s 8pm [for a prime time show, say], 8:30 in Newfoundland.”
Purcell, So Far from Here (Inside Hockey) 
